andrew-d/emoji256

Base256 encoding with emoji

emoji256

This is a super-simple program that implements a base256 encoding using emoji. It will encode anything passed to it on standard input, and write the output to standard output. The current emoji table is as follows:

👍👎👊✌✋👌👏👋👆👇👈👉✍👁👂👃
👣🤖❌➕➖➗✔❗❓⁉🎌💯💋💍💎❤
🎸🎷🎹🎻🏈🏀⚽⚾🏆🏁🏹🏅🏐☁🌪🌧
🌩➰🐔🐧🐋🦀🐒🐑🐍🐎🐘🐙🐢🐝🐖🐊
🐁🐄🐦🐌🐫🐬🐉🕷🕸🐈🐇🐜🐟🍣🍨🍩
🍪🍫🍭🍔🍕🍞🎂🌮🌭🧀🍙🍝🍿🍎🍍🍌
🍇🍉🍒🍓🍊🍋🍑🍐🍄🍅🍆🌶🌽🍷🍺☕
🍸🍾🎃🎄🎅🎁☃❄⌚⌛⏰☎🎈🎉🎊🎆
👻💀👿👽☀🌈🌙☔⭐🌵🌹🌻🍀🍁🌱🌴
💄💅🎩🎤🎥🎨🎲⚠📷💰💳💲♠♣♥♦
🚀🚒🚗🚢🚫🚲🚜🚁✈🚦💾💿📡📖📅📋
📎📏📌✏✂🔍🔑🔒🔪🔫🔧🔨🍴🔥💣🚬
👠👟👕👖👙👗👔👑👓👜💩🚽🚿🛀🎓🌋
⛪🆗🎀💊💉🔔🔬🕯◀▶⬅⬆⬇↗↖↘
↙↩↪🔄⏩⏪⏫⏬⏸✨☮☢☯✡⚓⚙
🎢🎡🎪🚩🎬🎮🎰🎱🎵🎺🎿🏋🏭👅👀👯

Example

$ echo 'my string' | cargo run
🍷⌛🎸🎄🎅🎃🍅🍺🍐👈

Some possible real-world uses of this could include:

SSH Key Validation

$ ssh-keygen -E sha256 -l -f ~/.ssh/id_main_rsa | awk -F'[ :]' '{print $3}' | base64 -d | emoji256
⭐👿🍪📋✈✔✔🎁🎊🍞↪📷☔💣🔑🏋👀🍪🍸🍪✂🎻↘🌮🌽🎥💳🚽↪⏰🐫⌛

Hash Comparison

$ sha256sum Cargo.toml | cut -d' ' -f1 | xxd -r -p | emoji256
🤖🐊🐢↩🕸🐟♣☀↙🍄⬅🍸👯⏰👑✂🔍🍅🎰❓🍉📏🌵🏈❤🎂🌮🎈⛪👇🔧🎂

GPG Key Fingerprints

$ gpg --list-keys --with-colons pacman@localhost | grep '^fpr' | cut -d':' -f10 | xxd -r -p | emoji256
🍭🐦☕🏐✍🎁👣✔◀🎂💅🎊🌴🍝➖🌽🍣🎓♦🍁